{"id":143265,"date":"2023-09-03T08:02:47","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T12:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=143265"},"modified":"2023-09-03T08:02:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T12:02:47","slug":"taking-care-of-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/taking-care-of-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking Care of Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brush my teeth as water warms.<br \/>\nA towel and a cloth.<br \/>\nMy body ready<br \/>\nfor its crystalline energy.<\/p>\n<p>Shampoo, then condition.<br \/>\nA foaming gel of roses<br \/>\nmeets my skin,<br \/>\nwashing every inch in luxury.<\/p>\n<p>Towel off, then moisturize<br \/>\nthe face, the arms, the legs<br \/>\nthe feet, especially.<br \/>\nFeet so ignored in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Brush in the mousse<br \/>\nwith hair still wet,<br \/>\nand wash my hands<br \/>\nof its stickiness.<\/p>\n<p>Conceal the dark<br \/>\naround my eyes.<br \/>\nChanel, my preferred<br \/>\nfive minutes of cosmetics.<\/p>\n<p>Then brush and blow<br \/>\nmy hair just so.<br \/>\nGet dressed!<br \/>\nI\u2019m ready to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brush my teeth as water warms. A towel and a cloth. My body ready for its crystalline energy. Shampoo, then condition. A foaming gel of roses meets my skin, washing every inch in luxury. Towel off, then moisturize the face, the arms, the legs the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143277,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143265\/revisions\/143277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}